CIHM 
Microfiche 
Series 
(Monographs) 


ICIVIH 

Collection  de 
microfiches 
(monographies) 


Cantdian  InttituM  for  Historical  Microraproductions  /  institi  t  Canadian  de  microraproductions  historiquot 


1996 


Technical  and  Bibliographic  Notes  /  Notes  technique  et  bibliographiques 


The  Institute  has  attemoted  to  obtain  the  best  original 
copy  available  for  filming.  Features  of  this  copy  which 
may  be  bibliographically  unique,  which  may  alter  any  of 
the  images  in  the  reproduction,  or  which  may 
significantly  change  the  usual  method  of  filming  are 
checked  tielow. 


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Encre  de  couleur  (i.e.  autre  que  bleue  ou  noire) 

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along  interior  margin  /  La  reliure  serree  peut 
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ta  marge  int^rieure. 

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within  the  text.  Whenever  possible,  these  have 
been  omitted  from  filming  /  II  se  peut  que  certaines 
pages  blanches  ajout^es  lors  d'une  restauration 
apparaissent  dans  le  texte,  mais,  lorsque  cela  §tait 
possible,  ces  pages  n'ont  pas  et^  film^. 


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ete  possibia  de  se  procurer.  Les  details  de  cet  exem- 
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d  nouveau  de  fagon  a  obtenir  la  meilleure 
image  possible. 

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discolou rations  are  filmed  twice  to  ensure  the 
best  possible  image  /  Les  pages  s'opposant 
ayant  des  colorations  variables  ou  des  decol- 
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to  the  ganarotity  of: 

Stauffer  Library 
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L'axamplaira  filmA  fut  raproduit  grlca  1  la 
gtntrosit*  da: 

Stauffer  Library 
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Tht  imagai  appearing  here  ere  the  beat  quality 
poatibia  considering  the  condition  end  legibility 
of  the  originel  copy  end  in  keeping  with  the 
filming  contract  spacificetions. 


Let  imeges  suivsntes  ont  ttt  reproduites  avec  le 
plus  grend  soin.  compte  tenu  da  la  condition  at 
da  le  netteta  de  I'enempieire  film*,  et  »n 
conformity  evec  lea  conditiona  du  contrat  de 
filmaga. 


Original  copies  in  printed  paper  covers  ere  filmed 
beginning  with  the  front  cover  end  ending  on 
the  last  page  with  e  printed  or  illuatrated  impree- 
sion,  or  the  beck  cover  when  eppropriete.  All 
other  originel  copies  are  filmed  beginning  on  tha 
first  page  with  e  printed  or  illustretad  imp'eo- 
sion.  and  ending  on  tha  last  page  with  a  printed 
or  illuatrated  impression. 


Las  asempleirea  originauii  dont  le  couverture  an 
papier  est  imprimte  sont  filmas  en  commancani 
per  le  premier  plat  at  an  tarminant  soit  psr  la 
darniare  pege  qui  comporte  une  empreints 
d'impression  ou  d'illustretion,  soit  per  le  second 
plet.  selon  le  ces.  Tous  les  auires  exemplairss 
originaus  sont  filmts  an  commandant  par  la 
pramiara  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impretsion  ou  d'illustretion  et  en  terminant  par 
la  dernitre  pege  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 


The  ieat  recorded  frame  on  eech  microfiche 
shell  contein  the  symbol  —^  Imeening  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  the  symbol  V  (meaning  "END"), 
whichever  eppliea. 


Un  dee  symbolaa  suivants  ippereitre  tur  Is 
dernitre  imega  de  chaque  microfiche,  selon  le 
cas:  la  symbols  — »  signifie  "A  SUIVRE",  le 
symbols  ▼  signifie  "FIN". 


Meps,  plates,  charts,  etc.,  mey  be  filmed  et 
different  reduction  retios.  Those  too  lerge  to  be 
entirely  included  in  one  exposure  ere  filmed 
beginning  in  the  upper  left  hend  corner,  left  to 
right  and  top  to  bonom,  as  many  frames  es 
required.  The  following  diegrems  illustrate  tha 
method: 


Lea  cartae,  planches,  tablaeux.  etc..  peuvent  ittt 
filmaa  i  dea  Uux  da  raduction  diffarants. 
Lorsqua  la  document  est  trop  grand  pour  atra 
raproduit  en  un  seul  cliche,  il  est  litint  a  pertir 
de  I'engle  suptrieur  geuche,  de  gauche  t  droiic. 
et  de  haul  an  bee,  en  prenent  le  nombre 
d'imegea  nteaaaaira.  Lea  diagremmes  suivsnts 
illustrant  le  mathode. 


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THE  WORD  AT  ST.  KAVIN'S 


Ifll':  WORD  AT  M.   K.WIN  S 
'NCE  at  St.  Kavin's  door 
'  I  rested.    No  sigh  more 
Of  discontent  escaped  me  from  that  day. 
For  there  I  overheard 
A  Brother  of  the  Word 
Expound  the  grace  of  poverty,  and  say : 


^  I  "MIANK  God  for  poverty 

■^     That  makes  and  keeps  us  free. 
And  lets  us  go  our  unobtrusive  way. 
Glad  of  the  sun  and  rain. 
Upright,  serene,  humane. 
Contented  with  the  fortune  of  a  day. 
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T  IGHT-HEARTED  as  a  bird, 


I  will  obey  the  word 


That  bade  the  earth  take  form,  the  sea  subside,— 

That  bids  the  wild  wings  go 

Each  year  from  line  to  snow. 

When  Spring  unfurls  her  old  green  flag  for  guide.- 


'   I   ^  HAT  bids  the  fleeting  hosts 

-■-      Along  the  shelving  coasts 
Once  more  adventure  far  by  sound  and  stream,— 
Bids  everything  alive 

Awaken  and  revive, 

Resume  the  unperished  glory  and  the  dream. 
9 


T   TOO,  with  fear  put  by, 

-^  Confront  my  destiny. 

With  not  a  wish  but  to  arise  and  go. 

Where  beauty  still  may  lead 

From  creed  to  larger  creed. 

Thanking  my  Maker  that  he  made  me  so. 


I  ^"^OR  I  would  shun  no  task 
-*-     That  kindliness  may  ask. 
Nor  flinch  at  any  duty  to  my  kind ; 
Praying  but  to  be  freed 
From  ignorance  and  greed. 
Gray  fear  and  dull  despondency  of  mind. 


1  O  I  would  readjust 
The  logic  of  the  dust, 
The  servile  hope  that  puts  its  trust  in  things; 
Ephemera  of  earth. 
Of  more  than  fleeting  worth. 
Are  we,  rndowed  with  rapture  as  with  wings. 


'   I   ^YPE  of  the  soul  of  man. 

The  slight  yet  stable  plan  ! 
Those  creatures  perishable  as  the  dew. 
How  buoyantly  they  ride 
The  vast  and  perilous  tide, 
Frail  shreds  of  earth  the  skyey  tints  enhue  ! 


^ND  I  would  keep  my  soul 
Joyous  and  sane  and  whole, 
Unshamed  by  falsehood  and  unvexed  by  strife, 
Unalien  in  that  clear 
And  radiant  atmosphere 
That  still  surrounds  us  with  a  larger  life. 


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HEN  we  have  laid  aside  Etffisiicr-'r  ivci«n'tT?'r'"\ 


Our  truculence  anc^  pride,  zft^n^  ln5■■,>i:?r.■^^^ 


Craven  self-seeking,  tm-balent  self-will,  rr 

Resolved  this  very  day 

No  longer  to  obey 

The  tyrant  Mammon  who  begods  us  still. 

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A  LL  selfish  gain  at  best 

Brings  but  profound  unrest 
And  inward  loss,  despite  our  fine  professions. 
Think  therefore  what  it  is. 
What  surety  of  bliss, 
To  be  absolved  from  burdensome  possessions  ! 


^J  HALL  God,  who  doth  provide 

The  majesty  and  pride 
And  beauty  of  this  earth  so  lavishly. 
Deny  them  to  the  poor 
And  lowly  and  obscure  ? 
Nay,  they  are  given  to  all  justly  and  free. 
>3 


A  ND  if  I  share  my  crust. 

As  common  manhood  must, 
With  one  whose  need  is  greater  than  my  own. 
Shall  I  not  also  give 
His  soul,  that  ii  may  live. 
Of  the  abundant  pleasures  I  have  known  ? 


A  ND  so,  if  I  have  wrought. 

Amassed  or  conceived  aught 
Of  beauty  or  intelligence  or  power. 
It  is  not  mine  to  hoard ; 
It  stands  there  to  afford 
Its  generous  service  simply  as  a  flower. 
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Ives, 


r  T  OW  soon,  my  friends,  how  soon, 

■■-   -*  We  should  obtain  the  boon 

Of  shining  peace  for  which  the  toiler  delv 

If  only  we  would  give 

Our  spirit  room  to  live, 

Be,  here  and  now,  our  brave  untarnished  selves. 


T  F  only  we  would  dare 

-■-  E.  ..  !se  the  good  and  fair 
Our  soul,   -nbound  by  custom,  still  perceives. 
And  without  compromise 
Or  favour  in  men's  eyes 
Live  by  the  truth  each  one  of  us  believes. 
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Bow  not  to  vested  wrong 
That  we  have  served  too  long, 
Pawning  our  birthright  for  a  tinsel  star ! 
Shall  the  soul  take  upon  her 
Time-service  and  mouth-honour  ? 
Behold  the  fir-trees,  how  unswerved  they  are ! 


NATIVE  to  sun  and  storm. 
They  cringe  not  nor  conform, 
Save  to  the  gentle  law  their  sound  heart  knows ; 
Each  day  enough  for  them 
To  rise,  cone,  branch,  and  stem, 
A  leaf-breadth  higher  in  their  tall  repose. 
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AH,  what  a  travesty 

Of  man's  ascent,  were  I 
To  bear  myself  less  royally  than  they, 
After  the  ages  spent 
In  spirit's  betterment, 
Through  rounds  of  aspiration  and  decay! 


"Tj^  OR  surely  I  have  grown  r  ^  - . .  .o  1 1 

-*-      Within  a  cleft  of  stone. 

With  spray    f  mountain  torrents  in  my  face; 

Slow  soaring  ring  by  ring 

On  moveless  tilted  wing, 

I  have  seen  earth  below  me  sink  through  space 

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LIT      ¥    TOO  in  polar  night 


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Have  hungered,  gaunt  and  white. 
Alone  amid  the  awful  silences  ; 
And  fled  on  gaudy  fin. 
When  the  blue  tides  came  in. 
Through  coral  gardens  under  tropic  seas. 


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ND  wheresoe'er  I  strove, 
The  greater  law  was  love, 
A  faith  too  fine  to  falter  or  mistrust ; 
There  was  no  wanton  greed. 
Depravity  of  breed. 
Malice  nor  cant  nor  enmity  unjust. 
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I^T  AY,  not  till  I  was  man, 

-^    ^    Learned  I  to  scheme  and  plan 

The  blackest  depredation  on  my  kind, 

Converting  to  my  gain 

My  fellow's  need  and  pain. 

In  chartered  pillage  ruthless  and  refined. 


npHEREFORE.  my  friends,  I  say, 

-■-      Back  to  the  fair  sweet  way 
Our  mother  Nature  taught  us  long  ago,— 
The  large  primeval  mood. 
Leisure  and  amplitude. 


The  dignity  of  patience  strong' and  ^l^iv' 


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IET  us  go  in  once  more 
— ^  By  some  blue  mountain  door. 
And  hold  communion  with  the  forest  leaves ; 
Where  long  ago  we  trod 
The  Ghost  House  of  the  God, 
Through  orange  dawns  and  amethystine  eves  ! 


THERE  bright-robed  choristers 
Make  music  in  the  firs. 
Rejoicing  in  their  service  all  day  long ; 
And  there  the  whole  night  through. 
Along  the  dark  still  blue. 
What  glorious  hosts  with  starry  tapers  throng  ! 


'T^^HERE  in  some  deep  ravine 

-■-      Whose  walls  are  living  green, 
A  sanctuary  spacious,  cool  and  dim. 
At  earth-refreshing  morn 

The  pure  white  clouds  are  born, 

The  ir-ense  of  the  ground  sent  up  to  Hi 


TV   T  O  slighted  task  is  there, 
^    But  equal  craft  and  care 
And  love  in  irresistible  accord. 
The  test  and  sign  of  art. 
Bestowed  through  every  part ; 
No  thought  of  recognition  or  reward. 


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IN  that  diviner  air 
We  shall  grow  wise  and  fair, 
Not  frayed  by  hurry  nor  distraught  by  noise,- 
Learn  once  again  to  be 
Noble,  courageous,  free, — 
Regain  our  primal  ecstasy  and  poise. 


CALM  in  the  deep  control 
Of  firmamental  soul. 
Let  us  abide  unfretful  and  secure. 
Knowledge  and  reason  bent 
To  further  soul's  intent, — 
Her  veiled  dim  purposes  remote  yet  sure. 

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l~^OR  she  has  led  us  now. 

Science  unravels  how. 
Through  cell  and  tissue  up  from  dust  to  man; 
And  will  lead  bye  and  bye. 
No  logic  tells  us  why. 
To  fill  her  purport  in  the  ampler  pla 


ian. 


AH,  trust  the  soul,  my  friends. 
To  seek  her  own  great  ends 
Revealed  not  in  the  fashion  of  the  hour! 
For  she  outlives  intact 
The  insufficient  act. 

Herself  the  source  and  channel  of  all  power. 
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f^l^HE  soul  survives,  unmarred, 

-■-     The  mind  care-worn  and  scarred 
That  still  is  anxious  over  little  things, 
To  come  unto  her  own. 
Through  benefits  unknown. 
And  the  green  beauty  of  a  thousand  springs. 


FROM  infinite  resource 
She  holds  her  gleaming  course 
Through  toil,  distraction,  hindrance,  and  dismay. 
Till  some  high  destiny. 
Accomplished  bye  and  bye, 
Reveals  the  splendid  hope  that  was  her  stay. 

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r-p\HEREFORE  should  every  hour 
-■-      Replenish  her  with  power 

Of  joy  and  love  and  freedom  and  fresh  truth, 

That  we  even  in  age 

May  share  her  heritage 

Of  ancient  wisdom  with  the  heart  of  youth. 


TORE  of  the  worldly  wise 

-'—'is  folly  in  her  eyes.  r+,.N^^ 

All-energy,  all-knowledge  and  all-love. 
Aware  of  deeps  below 
This  pageant  that  we  know. 
Hers  is  the  very  faith  accounted  of 

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TT)  Y  Him  who  rose  and  bar's; 

-*-^  His  friends  be  not  afraid. 

When  peril  rocked  their  fishing-boat  at  sea, — 

Who  bade  the  sick  not  fear. 

The  sad  be  of  good  cheer. 

And  in  the  hour  they  were  made  whole  and  free. 


'    I   "VHE  sceptic  sees  but  part 

-*~      Of  Nature's  mighty  heart. 
A  wide  berth  would  I  give  that  dangerous  shoal,- 
Steer  for  the  open  sea, 
No  sight  of  land,  but  free. 
Trusting  my  senses,  shall  I  doubt  my  soul  ? 
26 


T"  ET  me  each  day  anew 

-I— ^  My  outward  voyage  pursue 

For  the  Far  Islands  and  the  Apple  Lands ; 

Till  through  the  breaking  gloom 

Some  evening  they  shall  loom, 

With  one  pale  star  above  the  liJqc  sands. 


A  H,  that  day  I  shall  know 
-^    ^  How  the  shy  wood-flowers  grow. 
In  the  deep  forest,  turning  to  the  light ; 
Untrammelled  impulse  still 
With  glad  obedient  will 
The  only  guide  out  of  ancestral  night. 
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^'~^\  H,  I  shall  comprehend 

—     Truth  at  my  journey's  end, — 
What  being  is  and  what  I  strive  to  be, — 
What  soul  in  beauty's  guise 
Eludes  our  wistful  eyes, 
Yet  surely  is  akin  to  you  and  me. 


'   I   A  HEREFORE,  towards  that  supreme 

-*-       Knowledge,  that  unveiled  dream. 
That  promise  of  our  life  from  day  to  day. 
The  grace  of  joyousness 
Abide  with  us  to  bless 
And  help  us  forth  along  the  Perfect  Way ! 
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'   I  ^  HE  voice  of  the  good  priest 

"■-       In  benediction  ceased ; 
The  congregation  like  a  murmur  rose ; 
And  when  I  set  my  pack 
Once  more  upon  my  back, 
'Twas  light  as  any  thistle-down  that  blows. 


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